LDR 531 Week 2 Quiz( Latest Version.........

LDR 531 Week 2 Quiz

Week 2 Quiz

1) Which characteristic of negative charismatic leadership is more likely to lead to failure?

•         Identification to the organization

•         Focus on personal power

•         Tendency to make risky decisions

•         Centralized decision making

2) The leadership process that describes how a group operates in an open system with other groups is called

•         inter-active process

•         organizational process

•         intra-individual process

•         group process

3) A contingency theory of leadership that depends on specific procedures for leader behaviors and has strong support is

•         LPC contingency model

•         cognitive resource theory

•         multiple-linkage model theory

•         normative decision theory

4) A theory that emphasizes leader traits and skills as determinants of leadership behavior is best categorized at what level?

•         Individual

•         Organizational

•         Group

•         Dyadic

 5) A theory that explains the most effective pattern of leadership behavior in a specified situation is best classified as

•         prescriptive

•         contingency

•         universal

•         descriptive

6) Distant charismatics are often described in terms of their effect on follower

•         task behavior

•         identification with the leader

•         motivation

•         political attitudes

7) Most of the leadership theory and research explaining the actions of leaders and why those actions occurred has described

•         descriptive leadership

•         ethical leadership

•         universal leadership

•         prescriptive leadership

8) Ideological leaders will develop when the leader

•         appeals to shared values

•         has particular expertise

•         appeals to emotion

•         makes a rational appeal to followers

 9) What level of leadership process is emphasized in most theories of effective leadership?

•         Dyadic

•         Organizational

•         Intra-individual

•         Group

 10) CEOs who exhibit charismatic characteristics were noted to

•         generate more sales

•         increase company profitability

•         negotiate higher compensation packages

•         make company ads

11) Which of the following is a characteristic of a positive charismatic?

•         Centralized decision making by the leader

•         Dependency on the leader

•         Devotion to ideology not personal identification

•         Information is restricted

12) One unique characteristic of followers in leadership theory is

•         confidence and optimism

•         traits

•         task commitment and effort

•         skills and expertise

 13) Contingency theories may be difficult to implement because

•         situational changes happen infrequently

•         managers have time to evaluate situations

•         of the rapid pace of business

•         there is always a single best solution

14) Transformational behavior can include

•         passive management by exception

•         inspirational motivation

•         contingent rewards

•         active management by exception

15) Effective transformational leaders

•         use a combination of transformational and transactional behaviors

•         challenge strongly held values of followers to get their attention

•         delegate most decisions to individuals or self-managed teams

•         select subordinates who will be loyal and uncritical

16) A leadership contingency theory that stresses the intelligence and experience of the leader is

•         situational leadership theory

•         normative decision theory

•         leadership substitutes theory

•         cognitive resource theory

17) Which statement comparing transformational and charismatic leadership is most accurate?

•         Leader articulation of an appealing vision is important in both theories.

•         There are no important differences between the two types of leadership.

•         Situational variables are less important for charismatic leadership

•         Personal identification is more important in transformational leadership.

18) Which statement about transformational and charismatic leadership is most accurate?

•         Both types of leadership involve the same underlying processes

•         Charisma is a necessary ingredient in transformational leadership

•         Both types of leadership are effective in any situation

•         Charismatic leaders are more effective in business organizations

 19) Charismatic leaders add followers by

•         sharing the decision making

•         considering other solutions

•         appealing to emotions and articulating a vision

•         possessing specific expertise

 20) The concept that some people are natural (born) leaders is an attribute of which leadership approach?

•         Trait approach

•         Power-influence approach

•         Behavior approach

•         Situation approach

21) A contingency theory that contains mediating variables is

•         multiple-linkage model

•         situational leadership theory

•         leadership substitutes theory

•         cognitive resource theory

22) Most leadership theories emphasize

•         follower characteristics

•         leader characteristics

•         both leader and follower characteristics

•         characteristics of the leadership situation